Alex Darling was born in Toronto, Ontario on July 4th, 2002, and is an up-and-coming Canadian writer, director, editor, and film composer. On his YouTube channel AVG Films, his short films span many genres, including drama, horror, thriller, coming of age, and romance. Alex's work has been shown at the Sundance Film Festival and has amassed hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. His films often deal with experimental, visceral, and surreal subject matter. He has a natural passion for story-telling and wishes to use the medium to further the specificity of emotional and thematic communication.